LFS/syscalls -> Kernel interface incompatibility

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu May 25 08:52:00 GMT 2000


Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> But with the current situation, I think we need to duplicate this
> files for every big endian architecture and change the syscall.

Yes, and this is no real problem.  Just locate them and provide an
alternative file.  Assume we cannot change the kernel (which is most
probably the correct assumption).

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